Boston, but then; not Boston.

When we left the house this morning we had Boston in mind, but never got there. We first went to Lexington to buy a couple loaves of Great Harvest Bread. There in Lexington is a wonderful bike trail which, in total, is 11.2 miles (from Cambridge, through Lexington, to Bedford). We opted to ride as far as our parking meter would allow - about 1.5 hours round trip. I think we turned around in Arlington.

It was late enough in the day by then that we decided to skip Boston and headed for Salem instead, which is North of Boston. Rather than visit the witch related sites we choose instead to visit the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. We learned all about Salem's early history as it related to the bustling merchant trade ships.




After that we walked around the town and found the city's oldest cemetery. Inside we found gravestones dated 1750, then 1717, and then 1692! Capt. Richard More was a Mayflower passenger and died at the age of 84 years old in 1692.